Voltaire Quotes

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.

Whenever we see a state conducted by measures contrary to those made use of in its foundation, we may be assured a great revolution is at hand.

If Trump wins, I think the whole thing is going to blow up, and we're going to start over, and that's always a good thing to do.

Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.

Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.

People involved in a revolution don't become part of the system; they destroy the system... The Negro revolution is no revolution because it condemns the system and then asks the system it has condemned to accept them.

As the haves and have-nots split further and further apart, destabilization ultimately leads to revolution, not evolution. If we're playing the evolution vs. revolution game, we are closer to revolution than we are to evolution in my concept.

Revolutions are never peaceful.

A revolution in itself is not a blessing.

The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.

He who serves a revolution ploughs a sea.

Revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life and death struggle.

I fear we may live to see another revolution.

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society - both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug (revolution).

If you have no drugs, then you have revolution, and then drugs will be the only thing stopping that.

We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.

Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief.

All revolutions in history have obstacles.

The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.

It's not a revolution if nobody loses